Mastodawn

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

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r0k

@wwahammy I still don't understand how the flawed assumptions are supposed to be handled. And they're basic. What age is a web server OS install going to enter when they have no direct human user, just system accounts? What age is expected to be entered for multi-user systems, especially when users have differing ages? None of this makes sense.

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Eric Schultz 3d ago

@r0k the dipshit governor brought some of this up when he signed the bill. No one has a fucking clue, it it will have to be amended which everything I've heard is that it will be. And there's still going to be many lawsuits.

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r0k 3d ago

@wwahammy yeah, I don't understand the concept of signing a bill into law while saying it needs to be amended before the law goes into effect. That's the kind of thing you do while it's a bill before it turns into law. They're all inept and Meta is pulling the strings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

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Eric Schultz 3d ago

@r0k in the totally craven sense, the law passed unanimously so there's no gain for him to veto the law and get attacked for "not protecting the kids!" if it's just going to go into effect anyways.

I don't agree with his decision but that's probably why.